Rodent Smell In Attic

Unfortunately this smell can be produced by any member of the rodent family mice rats etc that may have found its way into your walls attic or crawlspaces and died.

Rodent smell in attic. You are probably already aware that rats are not the cleanliest of creatures that could be living in your house. If you think you may have a rat living in your attic then you need to get up there and investigate further. Floor plates have been seriously soaked with rat pee. The smell is still in the air at the center of the powder room.

Dave i have a foul smell coming from my ceiling fan in the 2nd floor power room. Nests in the attic and walls. I know its there but can t find the carcass. I went into the attic pulled apart the 3 flex off the fan and found nothing no droppings.

On this page i cover how to remove rat urine odor from an attic or ceiling space plus how to remove dead rat odor if a rat got stuck in a wall or cavity and has died. Ripped sheet rock off walls where known nests were and in ceiling. Rodents are such annoying little pests darting here and there playing in our clean laundry gorging on bits of our food and leaving little pieces of poop in some corner of the house ir ri ta ting but the truth is i think i d take a live moving jumpy rat over a smelly dead one any day. You can also use the same principles for mouse urine odor removal.

So if you re experiencing a smell of this nature in your home it s hard to say with certainty the culprit is a mouse without visual confirmation. The most obvious sign that you have rats in the attic is they will leave rat droppings all over the place.